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  2. Genaille–Lucas rulers - Wikipedia

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    Genaille–Lucas rulers (also known as Genaille's rods) are an arithmetic tool invented by Henri Genaille, a French railway engineer, in 1891. The device is a variant of Napier's bones . By representing the carry graphically, the user can read off the results of simple multiplication problems directly, with no intermediate mental calculations .

  3. Golomb ruler - Wikipedia

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    It has been proved that no perfect Golomb ruler exists for five or more marks. [3] A Golomb ruler is optimal if no shorter Golomb ruler of the same order exists. Creating Golomb rulers is easy, but proving the optimal Golomb ruler (or rulers) for a specified order is computationally very challenging.

  4. ABACABA pattern - Wikipedia

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    DABACABA patterns in (3-bit) binary numbersThe ABACABA pattern is a recursive fractal pattern that shows up in many places in the real world (such as in geometry, art, music, poetry, number systems, literature and higher dimensions).

  5. Scale ruler - Wikipedia

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    A scale ruler is a tool for measuring lengths and transferring measurements at a fixed ratio of length; two common examples are an architect's scale and engineer's scale. In scientific and engineering terminology, a device to measure linear distance and create proportional linear measurements is called a scale.

  6. Sparse ruler - Wikipedia

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    To measure a length of 7, say, with this ruler one would take the distance between the marks at 6 and 13. A Golomb ruler is a sparse ruler that requires all of the differences a j − a i {\displaystyle a_{j}-a_{i}} be distinct.

  7. Graduation (scale) - Wikipedia

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    A ruler with two linear scales: the metric and imperial.It includes shorter minor graduations and longer major graduations. A graduation is a marking used to indicate points on a visual scale, which can be present on a container, a measuring device, or the axes of a line plot, usually one of many along a line or curve, each in the form of short line segments perpendicular to the line or curve.

  8. Ruler - Wikipedia

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    A variety of rulers A carpenter's rule Retractable flexible rule or tape measure A closeup of a steel ruler A ruler in combination with a letter scale. A ruler, sometimes called a rule, scale or a line gauge or metre/meter stick, is an instrument used to make length measurements, whereby a length is read from a series of markings called "rules" along an edge of the device. [1]

  9. Fuller calculator - Wikipedia

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    The second, outer, cylinder is printed with the slide rule's primary logarithmic scale in the form of a 50-turn helix 12.70 metres; 500 inches (41 ft 8 in) long with annotations on the scale going from 100 to 1000. A brass tube with a mahogany cap at the top is a slide fit into the first cylinder. [1] [2] [3] [4]